From owner-freebsd-stable Thu Dec 27 6:20:26 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from valen.gwi.net (valen.gwi.net [207.5.128.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 50BA637B419; Thu, 27 Dec 2001 06:20:19 -0800 (PST) Received: from ABERRATION (dieselgeek.outofspec.com [207.5.188.11]) by valen.gwi.net (8.11.6/8.11.6) with SMTP id fBREKIJ21622; Thu, 27 Dec 2001 09:20:18 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <005101c18ee1$9b5d66e0$fa01a8c0@ABERRATION> Reply-To: "Predius" From: "Predius" Cc: , References: Subject: Re: Need PCI/VIA chipset help (was Re: 4.4-STABLE crashes - suspects new ata-driver over wd-drivers) Date: Thu, 27 Dec 2001 09:20:16 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="Windows-1252" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2600.0000 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG There are a couple known issues going on with the VIA Chipset line (Some acknowledge by VIA partially, some not.) beyond just the 686B bug. Here's a couple sites with details. Myself, I think it's a BIOS writer's problem as well, but unfortunatly with most VIA boards, their goal is performance over stability, leaving people like us SOL. http://www.networking.tzo.com/net/software/ http://www.tecchannel.de/hardware/813/1.html <- In german, bring your fish Myself, I'd love to see a couple kernel options that could impliment the chipset tweaks, I think they'd most appropriately be included with the other cpu tweaks, and should have an appropriate warning attached to them. Joshua Coombs ----- Original Message ----- From: "Pete French" To: Cc: ; Sent: Thursday, December 27, 2001 8:49 AM Subject: Re: Need PCI/VIA chipset help (was Re: 4.4-STABLE crashes - suspects new ata-driver over wd-drivers) > > Anyhow since this is not always the case I did the fix for -current, > > granted it should not be in the ATA driver, but since nobody else > > really cared at the time.... > > Does this mean that if you dont have the ATA drivers in the kernel then > you wont get the fix ? As the bug occurs under high PCI loads then this > can potentially affect people with large amounts of PCI activity on > SCSI drives too surely ? Granted I've never seen it happen, but it still > bothers me that it might... > > -pcf. > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message